It’s been over a week since my last update?!?! It’s midterm time for me right now and that’s kind of eating all my spare time. Learning is totally overrated and stuff. An odd collection of oddities today, including Italian dance music and proto-punk/rap. Enjoy.

Kinky Go
Gimme The Love (Vocal Version)
Gimme The Love (Instrumental)
So there was a genre called ‘Disco Italo’? Who knew? I guess the Italians knew, but whatever. From what I can tell this was the only song Kinky Go ever released…my, what could have been. This song is strangely addictive in a chewing-on-a-cold-sore kind of way.

Erasure
Blue Savannah (Out Of The Blue Mix)
Blue Savannah (Remix/Edit)
Blue Savannah (Blue Dub)
More Erasure equals more happy.

Lou Reed
My Red Joystick (Remix)
My Red Joystick (Instrumental)
Hearing Lou Reed singing about his “red joystick” is a little creepy and weird…even for Lou Reed. These remixes are off of the 12” single for the song. The original version is on New Sensations.

Lou Reed
The Original Wrapper (Extended Version)
The Original Wrapper (Remix Single Version)
The Original Wrapper (Dub Version)
Video Violence (Remix Version)
Okay, as if Lou singing a pop song about his red joystick wasn’t weird enough, Lou raps on ‘The Original Wrapper’ (I guess the title is an AMAZING pun). Both of these tracks are off of a 12” single. The original versions of them are on Mistrial, which is a Lou Reed album most Lou Reed fans can’t stand. I never heard it but I have to say that I’m a little curious about it after hearing these oddball tracks. I should probably buy Transformer first though, there’s probably some music geek rule about that being your first Lou Reed album.

Nothing incredibly bizarre or rare today, just some nice tunes. I got some more soundtracks I’ll be posting later in the week, including one to a movie that I can’t even locate on the IMDB! I’ve never found a movie that wasn’t on the IMDB before – do I get a cookie for that?

Billy Idol – Flesh For Fantasy (Below The Belt Mix)
Random 80s remix #1.

Eurythmics – Would I Lie To You (An Eric ‘ET’ Thorngren Mix)
Random 80s remix #2.

Paul Hardcastle
Don’t Waste My Time (Extended Version)
Loitering With Intent
Moonhopper
Okay, so ‘Don’t Waste My Time’ is kind of a generic dance song that is kind of forgettable, both ‘Loitering WIth Intent’ and ‘Moonhopper’ are awesome tracks though – and ‘Moonhopper’ really has an early-ambient feel to it. I’m digging them. ‘Moonhopper’ is on a few greatest hits compilations, as is the original version of ‘Don’t Waste My Time.’ I don’t think ‘Loitering With Intent’ is on any proper album though, and has only been released on EPs and singles.

Pigbag
Whoops There Goes My Body II
Sunny Day
Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag
Let me get this straight…there was a funk, jazz post-punk/new-wave fusion band and no one told me? Various versions of ‘Sunny Day’ and ‘Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag’ are available on several Pigbag compilations, but ‘Whoops There Goes My Body II’ doesn’t seem to be on CD at all.

Soundtrack From The Movie Dance Craze
I’ve never been a big ska fan and I think the genre peaked in the early 80s. So this soundtrack find was cool for me. Dance Craze is like the Urgh! of Ska movies, and has a lot of great live cuts that aren’t available anywhere else. The CD version has some more songs than this vinyl one, but it also doesn’t have any tracks by Madness, and I’d rather have the latter than the former. The tracks are listed in their original track order, which is why the bands are a little spaced out and out of order.
The Specials – Concrete Jungle
The English Beat – Mirror In The Bathroom
Bad Manners – Lip Up Fatty
Madness – Razor Blade Alley
The Selecter – Three Minute Hero
The Bodysnatchers – Easy Life
The English Beat – Big Shot
Madness – One Step Beyond
The English Beat – Ranking Full Stop
The Specials – Man At C&A
The Selecter – Missing Words
Bad Manners – Inner London Violence
Madness – Night Boat To Cairo
The Selecter – Too Much Pressure
The Specials – Nite Klub

Two more Jerry Goldsmith scores tonight. Both of these movies not only featured scores by Goldsmith, but both were also directed by Peter Hyams and while I haven’t seen either, both seem awesomely awful.

Outland Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Okay, so this movie is about a small mining town being overrun by drug smugglers. Sound boring? Well, did I mention it’s the mining town is in space?!? Oh, and the Marshal trying to stop the drugs is played by Sean Connery!?! And that the head smuggler is Peter Boyle?!? And I’ve never seen this movie because?

Capricorn One Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
When NASA discovers their impending mission to Mars is doomed to fail, they fake it and force the astronauts to comply in the hoax. The astronauts escape and try to alert people of the truth, at which point mysterious government agents start gunning them down. If the plot of this flick wasn’t weird enough, the cast is even more out there, with James Brolin, Sam Waterson and OJ Simpson(!!) starring as the astronauts. Elliot Gould and Telly Savalas also star in the film as a reporter and crop duster (that’s right Kojak is a crop duster) in on the conspiracy. That’s the best/worst cast ever.

Wow, more constructive criticism from Pitchfork about how much Jet sucks! At least they found a video that wasn’t older than the internet this time. It’s nice to see that jokes about piss-drinking and primates are enjoyed by more than just junior high kids.

Stupid Wankers.

Get Crazy Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
If you know this movie then you either worked at a video store or watched way too much late night TV in the late-80s. If you want to know anything about it check out this review from The Unknown Movies, a great site covering movies that have fallen through the cracks over the years. This is an odd soundtrack, not every track is a winner but it’s full of obscure tracks by some great artists as well as a punk-rocker turned casting director.

Sparks – Get Crazy
Sparks Rocks. This version of the title track to the film has never been put out on CD though, although an alternate take of it is available on the import rarities compilation entitled The Hell Collection.

Lori Eastside & Nada – You Can’t Make Me
The best new-wave song sung by a casting director you’ll ever hear.

The Ramones – Chop Suey
Of no relation to the System Of A Down song of the same name. This appeared as a bonus track to Pleasant Dreams when it was re-released as a deluxe CD.

Marshall Crenshaw – It’s Only A Movie (AKA But, But)
Crenshaw has his die-hard fans but I’m not one of them. I have nothing against the dude I just don’t know much about him. This is a nice song and was never put on any Crenshaw CD as far as I can tell.

Lou Reed – Little Sister
How the hell did he show up on this one? This track was on a box set as well but as Lou Reed tracks go it’s pretty rare. Not bad too, a little odd for Lou.

Lori Eastside & Nada -I’m Not Gonna Take It
The second-best new-wave song sung by a casting director you’ll ever hear.

Malcolm McDowell – Hot Shot
Yes, that Malcolm McDowell. He’s channeling his inner Jagger here and doing an alright job.

Bill Henderson – The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock & Roll
I have no idea who this is, pretty decent song though.

Fear – Hoochie Coochie Man
What the fuck? The real crazy thing is that this isn’t even the strangest cover Fear ever did – their take on ‘We Gotta Get Out Of This Place’ is just wrong. I don’t think this cover has ever appeared on CD.

Michael Boddicker/Howard Kaylan & Cast – Starscape/Auld Lang Syne
The last two tracks of the album are mixed together so I made them one. Michael Boddicker is a session musician that played on a lot of the tracks for this record and worked with Michael Jackson when he was still black. Howard Kaylan was in The Turtles and was the Ed of Flo & Eddie. Neither of these songs were ever released anywhere else.

I was halfway through this post last night when freezing rain managed to somehow knock out my internet access! Sigh.

The Wild Life – Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Cameron Crow followed up Fast Times At Ridgemont High with this flop of a movie that starred Chris Penn, Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson and Rick Moranis. I’ve never seen the flick (it’s been out of print for years) but I haven’t heard many good things about it. Supposedly it’s utter failure is one the reasons that Cameron Crowe assumed more creative control and took the helm as director for his next movie – Say Anything. The soundtrack sure is an odd one though, with several well-known musicians contributing songs you can’t find anywhere else:

Edward Van Halen – Donut City
The score to The Wild Life was primarily done by Eddie but he only gets one song on the soundtrack. This rarity has never seen the light of day on CD and is a good example of pre-Haggar, pre-suck Eddie Van Halen.

Hanover Fist – Metal Of The Night
This Canadian metal band released one album and then vanished into oblivion.

Charlie Sexton with Ron Wood – It’s Not Easy
Most of you probably know Ron Wood, he’s been in The Rolling Stones, The Faces and The Jeff Beck Group. Charlie Sexton’s a dude that’s been around, most recently as Bob Dylan’s guitarist. He’s pretty damn good. This Stone cover turned up on a tribute album in the late nineties, strangely enough.

Andy Summers – Human Shout
You’re going to see a lot more of Andy this year, since he got back together with Sting and Stewart Copeland to go on tour as The Police for the first time in God knows how long. This track never appeared on any of his solo albums – it sounds like an above-average Police song minus The Sting.

Bananarama – Wild Life
The title track to the film and one of the only tracks that is easily available on CD – it appeared on Bananarama’s second album and several compilations by the band.

What Is This– Mind My Have Still I
This never-was band is assured a permanent footnote in rock history as it featured early Red Hot Chilli Peppers Hillel Slovak and Jack Iron, who also served as drummer for Pearl Jam for a time being.

Van Stephenson – Make It Glamorous
This dude was in a country group called Blackhawk – that’s about all I could find out about him. This song ain’t too hot either.

Peter Case – Who’s Gonna Break The Ice
If you know who this is then you must love 80s college-rock, as Case was a member of The Plimsouls, an overlooked band who recorded one of the greatest pop songs of the decade ‘A Million Miles Away’ (which was subsequently butchered by the Goo Goo Dolls several years later). While he’s recorded several solo records, this song hasn’t appeared on any of them. It’s a damn shame too because it’s pretty good.

The Three O’Clock – I Go Wild
According to Allmusic these guys are the ‘quintessential paisley underground band’. I have no idea what that means – the song sure is groovy though.

Louise Goffin with Charlotte Caffey – No Trespassing
Goffin is Carol King’s kid. She sings the theme song to Gilmour Girls with her. This song is not on any of her solo records. Charlotte Caffey was the guitarist for The Go-Gos and wrote “We Got The Beat.”

The first of several soundtracks I’ll be posting this week, this is the only only featuring dead bunnies.

Watership Down – The Original Soundtrack From The Film
Yes I’m sure Watership Down was an amazing movie and even better book but I have no desire to ever see it. I don’t really want to see an animated movie that has cute little bunnies being eaten and killed. I have enough problems man, I don’t need that shit. This soundtrack is really hard to find though, so if you want to relive memories of bunnies being gutted via a lovely Art Garfunkel tune then hey, go nuts.

If the forecasts for my area are to be believed I’m not going anywhere tomorrow and for most of Wednesday, so I might be posting a bit more than usual to past the time between attempts at getting work done and playing Prey for the Xbox360.

Prince
Let’s Go Crazy (Special Dance Re-Mix)
Erotic City (Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive)
If you happened to watch the Super Bowl this year and didn’t run off to get food or use the can during the halftime show then you got to see Prince perform the bet halftime show of all-time. People forget that for all his insane name-changing, sexual ambiguity, and challenging creative detours – Prince still FUCKING ROCKS. This extended version of ‘Let’s Go Crazy’ is a good one, but the real gem here is the B-side. Erotic City is most likely the greatest B-side of all-time by anyone ever. Featuring backup vocals by Shelia E., this isn’t a song as much as it is an erection with a bass line. This version of ‘Erotic City’ is the full seven and half minute version and will blow your damn mind if you haven’t heard it before. If it sounds vaguely familiar but are certain you haven’t heard it before then you’ve probably seen PCU, George Clinton covers it during the concert scene.

Bruce Springsteen
Tougher Than The Rest (Live)
Be True (Live)
Roulette
Incident On 57th Street (Live)
People my age (late 20s/early 30s) and younger often don’t give Bruce the credit nor the attention that he so richly deserves. Like me, many of them grew up hearing ‘Dancing In The Dark’ and ‘Born In The USA’, slowly getting sick of them as the 80s progressed. By the time they were getting into music, their early teens, Bruce was entering his quiet, introspective, not-so-good phase and they passed him over. Of course, Bruce has really had a second coming as of late, delivering three great albums in a row and touring like a man on a mission. The golden age of Bruce will always be the late 70s to early 80s though, when he was with the E Street Band and performing some of the most energetic and exciting concerts of the decade. These live versions, taken from various EPs, showcase his amazing energy and musical skill during this time, and the B-side ‘Roulette’ proves that when Bruce is at his prime even his rejected tracks are great.

Cheap Trick
Saturday At Midnight (Super New Dance Re-Mix)
Saturday At Midnight (Super Dub Mix)
Another band unjustly left behind and forgotten over time, Cheap Trick is responsible for some of the best power pop ever unleashed unto this planet. Their first four studio albums are undeniable classics, and their seminal Live At Budokan still stands to this day as one of the greatest live records ever made. While they admittedly sunk pretty damn low in the 80s, they are still putting out some great records and still touring across the country. I saw them live once in the mid-90s opening for STP and they really blew me away. These guys play every show like their lives depend on it. These remixes of ‘Saturday At Midnight’ were taken off a 12” promo single. The song originally appeared on their 1982 LP One By One, which spawned the hit ‘She’s Tight.’

Here’s the second half of the soundtrack to Athens, Georgia – Inside/Out. Later tonight/early Tuesday morning I’ll have a large update that will include on of the greatest B-sides of all time, so stay tuned!

Pylon – Stop It
Time Toy – Hi
Bar-B-Q Killers – His And Hearse
Dreams so Real – Golden
REM – Swan Swan H
Flat Duo Jets – Jet Tone Boogie
The Squalls – Elephant Radio

I haven’t updated in nearly week, want to know why? Because Verizon DSL is a giant pile of shit that can’t get their heads out of their asses and fix a shitty connection. I planned a bigger post for today but I don’t want to press my luck with uploading files tonight. Hopefully I’ll have more this weekend. Argh.

Music From The Movie, “Athens, GA – Inside/Out”
The Squalls – Na, Na, Na, Na
Flat Duo Jets – Crazy Hazy Kisses
R.E.M. – (All I’ve Got To Do Is) Dream)
Love Tractor – Pretty
Kilkenny Cats – Nightfall
Time Toy – Window Sill
Athens, GA – Inside/Out was a concert movie about the music scene in Athens circa 1986. I’ve never seen it but the soundtrack sure is killer. While you can get the movie on DVD, the soundtrack has yet to be released on CD. This is the first half of the album, I’ll post side two later in the week. I’m not posting this is a zip file because a lot of people out there may only want the REM songs and why make their lives harder?

Talking Heads
Love For Sale (Extended Version)
Love For Sale (Special ‘New’ Version)
The extended version of this song is my new favorite Talking Heads song. David Byrne’s vocals on this song are about one step away from just non-stop maniacal screaming. I’m totally digging it.